"Heaven, The Creative is decided
and therefore shows to men the easy.
Earth, The Receptive is yielding
and therefore shows to men the simple."
"The two fundamental principles move according to the requirements of the time, so that they are continuously undergoing change. But the nature of their movement is uniform and consistent. The Creative is always strong, decided, real, hence it meets with no difficulties. It always remains true to itself; hence its effortlessness. Difficulties always indicate vacillation and lack of clarity. In the same way it is the nature of the Receptive to be consistently yielding, to follow the line of least resistance, and therefore to be simple.
Complications arise only from an inner conflict of motives."
"Only through the divine can one hurry without haste and reach the goal without walking."
"Space, as the principle of diversity and confusion, is overcome by the deep, the simple. Time, as the principle of uncertainty, is overcome by the easy, the germinal."
I Ching or book of changes, Richard Wilhelm translation
